William Peter Blatty was pounding out the first pages of "The Exorcist" when his telephone rang – bringing the news that his mother had died. The screenwriter was already digging into dark material ...

What prompted the idea for the course? When Meghan R. Henning, a scholar of early Christianity, completed her 2014 book on how the concept of hell evolved in the early Christian church, she wanted to ...

Hell’s Kitchen was renamed in 1959, but Clinton didn’t really stick. Clearly these are no names for the utopia that some of our most committed urbanists have started to envisage on the Far West Side.

St. Faustina Kowalska said that in hell ‘there are caverns and torture pits where each type of agony differs from the other.’ In the history of the Catholic Church, various saints and blesseds have ...

In the history of the Catholic Church various saints and blesseds have described what hell is like and even exactly where “bad Christians” would be placed, based on visions and messages they received ...